Last Quarantine Day

Quarantine is pretty much “medical” theater as applied to the Chinese Wuhan Kung-Flu. Today’s my 10th day pretending to be so ill that my presence is a danger to the larger society outside my Stepford front door. My wife’s 10th quarantine day was yesterday.

Treatment & Symptoms

On 28 December, my doctor told me, “You’re positive and you win the 12 Meds of Covid!” A Z-pack, three or four palliatives, a couple of vitamins. Because I respect my doctor and disliked the nuisance symptoms I was experiencing, I complied with the prescribed medicinal regimen. Biggest hassles? Loose stools and fatigue, some dizziness, and more fatigue.

Edit: Forgot to mention loss of olfactory and taste. Also, a more or less continual metallic taste in my mouth – so, altered sense of taste versus total loss of that sense. You know what bugs me most about that? Coffee tastes lousy. Remember when you were a kid and took the foil from Hostess Ding Dongs and formed them to your teeth to pretend you had braces or metal teeth? That’s the metallic taste I’m talking about.

Quarantine Activiites

Let’s see, what changed? Not much.

We skipped worship service last Sunday. The sermon was available yesterday and I listened to most of it in the evening. If there’d been a video linked to the church app, I’d’ve probably watched it, but I liked that I got to skip the musical part of the service. I like singing as much as the next guy, and I love to hear my wife and son singing, but sometimes the audio presence during congregational singing is overloud.

I fueled up one of the cars and trusted gasoline fumes at the pump to neutralize any weaponized Chinese breath molecules that may have lighted upon surfaces thereat. I forgot to wear a mask. Didn’t talk to anyone closer than seven or eight feet, though.

We loaned one of our cars to a friend who’s two vehicles are unavailable for use. I hope the Trump sticker in the back window doesn’t get him put on some kind of Communist hit list. I left the key fob on the car’s roof with a couple of Wet Ones wipes. Did offer to run the ozone generator in the car or loan it with the car, but our friend didn’t think that was necessary. I again forgot to wear a mask but was at no time closer than 12 feet during our brief conversation.

Been bike riding at midday, sometimes with my son, sometimes alone. I never wear a mask while riding because I want to be able to breathe without restriction. And I don’t really talk to people while riding, anyway.

So what’s really changed?

For the first time in years, I’ve not set any wake-up alarms because I haven’t been going anywhere in the mornings.

It’s been 10 days without a trip to the gym. Because I haven’t been lifting weights and doing much cardio work, I haven’t been as hungry. I’ve lost a little weight and have been also doing intermittent fasting – 16 hours from supper to next meal.

I took two sick days – 29 and 30 December. Last two days of that week were holidays. I’d already arranged to take this week as personal leave. Partial quarantine isn’t how I initially planned to spend the week. And since our son will have to quarantine from school through the 14th, no quiet alone time for me. No, he’s got no diagnosis, but his 20 day asymptomatic quarantine is part of our nation’s medical theater game. So, he’ll be engaged in distance learning.

Three or four days, in the afternoons, I’ve taken naps. Just conked out. That’s been pleasant.

Done a lot of reading, but that’s not really a change.

A Wuhan Kung-Flu Covid Holiday

Dear Communist China and your fellow travelers in the United States,

Thank you so much for the opportunity to experience not only one of your science projects, but also one of your social experiments. It’s been great. I hope some day soon we are able to provide every Communist Party member and supporter with a similarly memorable experience.

Sincerely,

Christov Tenn

Kung Flu!

My wife thinks she caught the Chinese Coronavirus from a kid she had contact with at work and first exhibited symptoms right around Christmas Day. Her test result, available the following Sunday evening, was positive. I had the “rapid screening” test Monday and found out immediately that I was positive for the virus. My symptoms at that time were slight intestinal malaise and a dry cough. Additional sx since then have been similar to sinus-drainage sore throat with ache at inner ear, gradual loss of smell and, as of this writing, taste. Occasional headaches, some fatigue. Cough has become “productive” – euphemism for phlegmy.

Because I can’t go to the gym in the early a.m., I haven’t been setting an alarm. I’m sleeping later. I’m eating less because I’m less hungry due to lack of meaningful exercise. I’ve had a couple of neighborhood bike rides with my son, but didn’t yesterday and today it’s raining. A little weight loss won’t do me any harm.

Kung-Flu? Ha Ha. No Regrets.

Yesterday afternoon, I watched a White House press briefing on YouTube.  That’s an interesting exercise, in itself, and a good way to get a clear idea of what the Trump Administration is communicating without media gatekeeper spin.

An Asian female reporter for one of the mainstream media outlets repeatedly asked whether President regretted having used the “racist” term or phrase Kung-Flu to describe the Chinese coronavirus.  The manner in which she spoke trumpeted the assumption that it is a matter of settled fact that Kung-Flu is a racist term and no right thinking individual would dispute that assumption.  That struck me as nonsensical.  I wish Ms. McEnany had said so, but because the Washington Press Corps is comprised of anti-Trump activists – as evidenced by their typically silly, clearly biased questions – she was kept busy playing a sort of Space-Invaders game responding to the group’s more egregious attempts to denigrate the work of the current administration.

I admire Ms. McEnany’s preparation.  She frequently refers to organized material in a notebook on the podium from which she cites verifiable information in refutation of most of the claims made by the activist press corps on a given day.  I also, to a degree, admire her patience with the often childish behavior and inane questions shouted at her by several of the activists in the room.

As a citizen, can you imagine wasting an opportunity to ask a member of the administration real questions about serious matters relevant to the well-being of the republic?  What passes for journalism today is sorry spectacle irrelevant to the lives of most of this nation’s people.

Leftist Voter Fraud Strategy

This is more stuff that should be obvious even to the meanest intelligence –

• Democrats have been handed a crisis they love – Covid 19 – The Wuhan Flu – that has resulted in very high unemployment nationwide and is killing off a lot of old people in nursing homes.  In fact, reporting indicates that at least one, but probably most Democrat governors, are “seeding” the Chinese coronavirus through their states by placing Covid19 patients in nursing homes, as opposed to quarantining them with others who are infected in centers away from vulnerable populations.  See this Gateway Pundit article:  https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/governor-whitmer-sent-covid-19-patients-across-state-seed-nursing-homes-coronavirus-kept-patients-1000-bed-tcf-center-detroit/
• A lot of money is tied up providing care for nursing home patients and a lot of money and property are tied up while those individuals are living.  In the event of a mass nursing home population die-off, that wealth will be freed up for redistribution.  Taxes, medicare or medicaid confiscation.  See this Atlantic Monthly article:  https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/10/when-medicaid-takes-everything-you-own/596671/
• Democrats now, due to the Wuhan Virus, want to institute universal vote-by-mail balloting for the 2020 presidential election.  Who do you think all of those dead nursing home residents will be voting for in the coming election?  See this Town Hall article:  https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2016/05/25/cbs-uncovers-voter-fraud-in-la-n2168330  Everybody knows that the dead always vote Democrat – https://www.bing.com/search?q=the+dead+vote+democrat&PC=U316&first=1&FORM=PERE
• Clearly killing off nursing home patients is part of the Democrat plan for voter fraud during the next presidential (and incidental state and local elections, as well) election.
• Maybe there are other ways to connect these dots, but given what we know about Democrats, socialists, Antifa communist agitators and those who benefit from their actions, I think there’s a likelihood I’m right.

More Political Stuff

What’s Really Going On?

Democrat politicians and their useful voter enablers generally want U.S. citizens to become dependent subjects and imagine that whatever they do in elected or appointed office is so important, it’s almost criminal to impede – by improving economic conditions, by allowing a partial government shutdown, by reducing the size or reach of government agencies, by adjudicating limits to government power – that any means are warranted to eliminate the threat to their collective agenda.

Mainstream media, in the U.S., tends to serve the purposes and advance the agenda of the Democratic party.  The bias is clear to any intellectually honest observer.

Regarding the current Chinese or Wuhan Covid-19 virus contagion, the Democrats are thrilled at the deleterious effect it is having on the economic health of the United States of America.  Typically, Democrats feel empowered when the economy is in the toilet – it allows them to enroll more citizens in programs that relegate them to status dependent upon government largesse.  And people who quickly become used to and dependent upon that taxpayer funded largesse typically vote for anyone who promises to continue providing and/or to expand same.  So, they’re loving this.

In addition to the foregoing, the manner in which the Chinese Coronavirus has applied the brakes to commerce appears to have poked a stick in the spokes to the economic upturn that has been one of President Donald Trumps extra-congressional accomplishments during his tenure in office.  Democrats love this.

Democrat fellow travelers in places like the World Health Organization appear to have provided misinformation (r/t lethality) and to have ignored early warnings r/t the Chinese coronavirus (provided by Taiwan).  World Health Organization staff may simply be incompetent or may have ideological reasons for behaviors like ignoring information provided by a source out of favor with a large geopolitical player like China.  Who knows which or whether?

Two Things at Once

During the WWII, the United States of America was able to wage war on multiple fronts, obtain mastery in all theaters of operation.  As a nation, we were able to do more than “two things at once.”  The presidential administration of Barrack Obama appeared intent upon diminishing the United States’ ability to function independently of other nations or conglomerations of nations (I regret the unintentional rhyming) in all spheres of endeavor.  That said, the people of the United States are in general not the diminished beings Obama and his handlers had re-imagined us as – serving an all-you-can-eat buffet-for-the-world host nation to the parasitic ambitions and needs of other nations and people groups around the world.

We can function economically and fight the spread of a disease at the same time.  The shutdowns and shelter-in-place orders will expire and, even while they are ‘active,’ we will continue to work and function in ways that make sense, that do not equal passive acquiescence to the statist, collectivist dreams of Democrat politicians.